"On Monday November 19th we were afforded an opportunity to observe a tribe of people who live in a manner utterly foreign to us. They live in a village fortified with fences and moats called Sun City. The name is appropriate since these people seem particularly fixated on the topic of weather and greatly speak with disparagement regarding the climates of their native birthplace in the North. Indeed, these migrating folk mostly originate from Ohio, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. They are by the majority fair in complexion, though often red from overexposure to the sun. While healthy, it is curious to note that no children or youths were encountered on our excursion to this land. Our visit commenced at a security stockade where a brisk elder took great pleasure in instructing us to take our first right and fourteenth left. Through curvy main roads intersected by feeder streets named after Robert Lee and his military colleagues, we slowly wander our way past artificial lakes, patches of woodlands and houses. All this time we were conscious of our speed due to the numerous video surveillance cameras. The dwellings of the locals are spacious and of recent construction. In fact, no structure in this settlement seemed old or evidenced decay or use. The habitations seemed to be the architectural plan of a single person. The houses are uniform in color, each resembling the beige one might encounter used in a hotel telephone. Before each dwelling was a conspicuously brown, neat lawn planted with manicure shrubs and tropical foliage. Apparently, despite the fountains, ponds and other waterworks, the southern drought has had some effect here on the landscape.

"Two rituals bind the people here to this place. They are the games of golf and tennis, which have been elevated to the status of a religion. The game of golf requires considerable amounts of land and significant engineering works, while the tennis courts are built into a single compound. These activities largely construct the time of the inhabitants, however, there are numerous other distractions from swimming to the social drinking of alcohol. There is even a nature path which curiously is a walkway elevated off the forest floor. Perhaps the intention for this is to keep those who would appreciate nature clean since hygiene seems to be of the utmost importance to these singular people. Indeed numerous signs of the village warn that pet droppings spread disease.

"These people are active, although seem to work little. Indeed labor such as maintenance, garden tending and cleaning is not performed by the denizens of the village, but by workers imported from beyond the compound. Many of these laborers are much younger and are often ethnically distinct from the Sun City villagers, who on the whole, are a cultural, ethnic and generational monoculture.

"The space of this place is vast and all about we spied people walking, running and driving not only automobiles, but also small electric vehicles. The locals have a high appreciation for the status of these small electric cars and take them to all activities, and sometimes to Burger King on the other side of the highway."

- M